Multi-Media

Erica Monaco

STMPNo8

             The title of my documentary will be “The Twins” this is what me and my twin sister were referred to all the time and it only seems fitting that that is the title for the documentary about us.  The statement I want to make by making this film is to show how strong the bond is between twins. The main conflict of this film will be our separation from each other since we both go to different universities. I want my audience to feel the love and companionship that Rachel and me have for each other.

           This film will be my twin sister Rachel and me. We have been best friends since our birth and I want this documentary to follow us through our early years and come up to present day with us being separate from each other and having to learn how to be individuals and how we still keep contact every single day.

           One of the action sequences that I envision for this documentary is a time lapse of all the times Rachel text and me each other throughout a day. I will achieve this by taking screenshots of her texts that she sends me throughout the day. This will show how we keep in contact and are basically still connected even though we are apart. This sequence relates to the conflict of us be away from each other. The audience will gather from this sequence just how close my twin and I am and how much we talk to each other.

           The main character in this documentary is Rachel and I. My older sister Marisa and my parents will also have minor roles in the video when showing our early years and our family dynamic, such as how Marisa feels with Rachel and I being so close. I want to show that Marisa is just as important as Rachel but how us being twins is a different relationship.

           The conflict of this documentary is the separation and how we have to learn to grow up and be individuals and how we have to learn to make our own friends and conduct our lives apart. The confrontation of the film will be shown through pictures of Rachel with her closest friends at school and the same with me.

           The structure of the film will start with pictures of Rachel and me as babies and progress with us growing up. Then it will show us when I was moving into Rutgers and how we reacted along with interviews of how we felt and then will go into pictures of us separate in school and then the times she visited me and when I came to visit her.

           The form and style will mostly be videos and pictures taken from phones, which show how real and raw the footage is along with interviews and videos from Skype and Face Time. The camera being used is from an iPhone.